Timocles
Sign in to saveTimocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, ) was one of the last Athenian comics poets of the Middle Comedy, although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy. Allusions in his surviving fragments to the dispute over Halonnesus between Macedon and Athens (342 BC) and the office of gynaeconomi ("women's overseers", introduced after 317 BC by Demetrius of Phalerum) put his dates of activity in the second half of the fourth century BC.
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- I9 Timocles fr.24, from Men from Marathon
- E31 Timocles fr.4, from Delos
- D7 Timocles fr.27, from Orestautocleides
- D5 Timocles fr.6, from Women Celebrating the Dionysia
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Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, ) was one of the last Athenian comics poets of the Middle Comedy, although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy. Allusions in his surviving fragments to the dispute over Halonnesus between Macedon and Athens (342 BC) and the office of gynaeconomi ("women's overseers", introduced after 317 BC by Demetrius of Phalerum) put his dates of activity in the second half of the fourth century BC.
Timocles is known to have won first prize at the Lenaea once, between 330 and 320 BC. The Suda claims that there were two comic poets of this name, but modern scholars equate the two. Unlike most Middle Comedy plays, his works featured a good deal of personal ridicule of public figures, especially orators like Demosthenes and Hyperides.